Monument record MDO3036 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Came Down Group, Winterborne Came

Tree covered barrow, damaged by ruined building on north. In 1972 this monument was reported as being around 42 feet in diameter with a mound about 1½ high, and covered in trees.

Tree covered bowl barrow on the east side of Down Wood, 42 feet diameter by 1 1/2 feet high. <1> <3>

Flat topped bowl barrow, mutilated and overgrown. Diameter 13.0m, height 0.7m. No visible ditch. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on MSD. <4>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 148 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 69038641) Tumulus (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 464 (Monograph). SDO150.

'(34) Bowl (?) (69038641) on E. side of Down Wood 270 yds. N.E. of (33). Diam. 42 ft., ht. 1½ ft. Tree-covered. '

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 03-JAN-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 505 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 13.0m, ht. 0.7m. Tree covered and cut on E by ruined building. In unmanaged woodland (sycamore). 1/4/D

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452196 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 29 2023 3:38PM